ARTEL Liquid Handler Performance Verification Service
Outsource your liquid handler QA with a customized service and know if your liquid handlers are performing optimally for your assays.
Overview
- Artel's experts take care of the specialized and critical task of Performance Qualification (PQ) - allowing you to focus on your work
- Per your requirements, includes standardized and/or customized volume transfer assessment for most makes and models of automated liquid handlers
- Includes documented performance results that are traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Uses the MVS, a standardized volume verification system, to ensure repeatability of liquid handler methods between laboratories or locations
- Provides tip-by-tip and well-by-well statistics for volumes transferred into 96-well or 384-well microtiter plates
- Includes precision and accuracy assessment for all tips
- Determines dilution step accuracy for dilutions up to 1:2048 of the starting material
- Analyzes non-aqueous solution volume transfers
With this service, you can expect:
- Volume transfer performance assessment for scheduled or periodic services for liquid handlers in multiple locations
- Site acceptance testing of new equipment
- Consultation and guidance in writing operating procedures and methods for assays
- Compliance with internal SOPs and documentation procedures
- Thorough performance validation of equipment after repair and maintenance
- Real-time assistance in method optimization to ensure assay data integrity
- Side-by-side comparison of dispensed volumes between different automated methods and different liquid handlers (method-to-method or device-to-device comparisons)
- Development and evaluation of new volume transfer strategies, i.e., to show cause-and-effect volume-based measurements after manipulations to method parameters and liquid class settings
- Reverse mode pipetting vs. forward mode
- Air gap use
- Tip touches
- Dispense rates/heights
- Wet dispense vs. dry dispense
…and much more.